Emily Dickinson Quotes

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Emily Dickinson

Profession : Poet

Birth : December 10, 1830

Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Emily Dickinson

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

Emily Dickinson

Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.

Emily Dickinson

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

Emily Dickinson

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Emily Dickinson

Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.

Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Emily Dickinson

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

Emily Dickinson

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

Emily Dickinson

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the exponent of breath.

Emily Dickinson

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

Emily Dickinson

How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!

Emily Dickinson

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

I'm nobody, who are you?

Emily Dickinson

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Emily Dickinson

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibility.

Emily Dickinson